The preoccupations of eighteenth-century novelist Samuel Richardson--the inequities of gender and sexuality; race and white femininity; masculinity, sadism, and control; religion and selfhood; authorship and artistic form--continue to resonate with…

David Wayne Russell is ready to feel young and free again. As he makes his way home to Kentucky from Vietnam, David knows his fiancee, Libby, has already mapped out…

A biography of Jimmy Swaggart, describing also the rise of the religious right and the phenomenon of televangelism in America.

In most parts of highland Ecuador, people still identify themselves as indigenous and as belonging to a particular ethnic subgroup by the clothes and ornaments they wear. This book offers…

Sacred Space, Beloved City: Iris Murdoch’s London is a celebration of Iris Murdoch’s love for London and establishes her amongst distinguished London writers such as William Blake, Charles Dickens and…

With Extracts From A Paper Written For The Massachusetts Historical Society.

Describes the creation of a new, digital version of an important county map that throws important new light on Hertfordshire’s landscape and society in the middle decades of the eighteenth…

The author and his team have researched the intensive transformation processes of about twenty-five neighborhood communities in Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen, and Suzhou, ranging from inner-city to peripheral areas, starting from…